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Employees sent on weekend training time: Does that affect their overtime pay?

by 04/26/2013

Q. We sent a few employees to training over a weekend. They weren’t required to attend, but the course will help them do their jobs better. We paid the hourly ­workers for that time, but not overtime. Do we owe them overtime if they worked 40 hours before the training session?


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